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Just a note to my last news. The problem goes on, I just tried to install VirtueMart on the last joomla5.3 and it was not even possible to install it. On the other hand, it is funny to read the patch notes. One patch will fix an issue of joomla 5, but for j5.3, we solved it already in this release. The question is, why we have to solve something, which worked since vm2.6? After this release should be more time to work on WP and make some committs.
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Features
- Template vmBasic, Added register and checkout button, removed registration fields from cart view.
- Bundles added option "orderableBrowse" for disabling add to car in listing
- Added option calculateVariantsOnFreshLoad, which directly calculates the price for the selected variant (with php)
- Fixed dragndrop for customs, products, categories, countries
- Added missing states list and states edit layouts to new admin template
- Hiddden config reuseorders, default is set to 0/off now
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The new version 4.4 has few new features, but reflects the evolving development process. Longterm users know that VirtueMart is developed in a rapid prototyping and KaiZen philosophy style. So if we develop a new feature, our testers sometimes have 10 new test versions a day. On the other hand, we try to evolve the code without hard breaks. For example developers can use the same function to get a category tree, but the technic behind that function drastically changed over the years. No stone was left unturned.
A known joomla ecommerce component announced last weeks, that they stop development. Of course some eager developers created a fork, but they will run into the same problems as the prior developers. And these problems are similar to our problems, in that it is not enough to just keep the core development paid and ongoing, we must as a community also keep our 3rd party developers and encourage new ones to join us.
Lets create a VirtueMart for Joomla and Wordpress
Read more: Release of VirtueMart 4.4 and Roadmap, always push beyond
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New Template vmBasic
The new template is written by Spyros Petrakis and is kept simple to enable easy modification. It works fast out of the box and is written fully in Bootstrap 5. Mobile ready and simple to configure. Natively supported OPC.
The new layout system of VirtueMart allows you to use different bootstrap layouts and this now comes into play. The layout files of the vmBasic are integrated in the core as files with the prefix bs5-, meaning these basic layouts can easily be used in any other bootstrap 5 templates. This means VirtueMart has arrived in the Bootstrap 5 world finally. Special Virtuemart css classes are reduced, so it is also easier to learn. This should increase the out of the box useablity of templates for VirtueMart. The Bootstrap 5 layout is set for Joomla 5 automatically. Existing layout overrides are kept.
Rough times behind, calm waters ahead, let's sail into the future.
The last few years have been characterised by constant changes in the software environment of VirtueMart.
Read more: VmBasic, the new VirtueMart native Bootstrap 5 template and layouts
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[Hotfix Update 4.2.12]
There was a problem with creation of invoices. The Locking boolean was not correctly set and/or wrongly read. At least we know what we have todo next to prevent coding traps.
The focus of this release was to identify and fix bugs. In addition, we added small enhancements for the Joomla 4/5 GUI. Tooltips should work again and opening a VM view in the backend opens the VM menu and minimises the joomla one.
We also invested a lot time in the routing process. It may be necessary to remove setting the itemid per layout file.
Please check this link for details https://dev.virtuemart.net/projects/virtuemart/repository/virtuemart/revisions/10996.
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Joomla 5 is the new long term release of Joomla. Surprisingly it was very easy to adjust VirtueMart 4 for Joomla 5. This was planned as the christmas release, but now it has become a Happy New Year release with some delay.
Project development through Membership
Sören, the founder of VirtueMart, helped me to update the entire infrastructure of the VirtueMart project (with Membership fundings). Our infrastructure, email server, svn, redmine, forum and our websites were quite outdated. So it was time to update everything. We now have a new redmine (web-based project management software) for dev.virtuemart.net and the forum and mail server have also been updated. I have been working on the latter for weeks to configure it with DMARC, SPF, DKIM, reverse DNS and so on. Finally, I moved all pages to the web host hetzner and updated all virtuemart.net pages to Joomla 5, with the exception of demo.virtuemart.net. Any of our virtuemart.net pages are running now with the new template of Neoteric of VirtuePlanet, with extra customisations (with Membership fundings)
But a new native BS5 template is already in the pipeline. If all goes well, we will soon have a new VirtueMart-native BS5 template that will be used as the new template for the core, on the demo and of course with Joomla 5! So we did a great step to ensure a great lifetime for the project (with Membership fundings).
